gobject.GBoxed an object containing an opaque chunk of data gobject.GBoxed copy +-- gobject.GBoxed gobject.GBoxed is an abstract base class that encapsulates an opaque chunk of data to provide an object-oriented interface and a type that is registered with the GLIB type system. A boxed type is registered with functions that provide for the copying and freeing of the underlying data structure - this allows PyGTK to encapsulate these as Python objects. copy Returns : a copy of the gobject.GBoxed object The copy() method makes and returns a copy of the boxed object.